Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 4, 2025

Here are three proposals for common-sense solutions to improve the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program of the U.S. Topic #1: Fiber Priority When we consider broadband infrastructure as a 30-year investment rather than focusing on speed targets, the case for building fiber networks in rural areas becomes clear.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 19, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2025 – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey called on the Federal Communications Commission Monday to return $177 million in defaulted broadband funding to the state. ” Bailey pointed to New York's success in reclaiming federal broadband dollars as precedent.

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Telecom Talk

JULY 28, 2025

Further, in the price segment, Starlink will be way more expensive than what Indians pay for even the highest end broadband plans/connections. The telcos will help Starlink in distributing its connectivity kit across India through their retail presence. So it will only serve a small segment of the market.

Retail

VoIP Review

MARCH 5, 2025

This new entity aims to deliver comprehensive space-based cellular broadband connectivity across Europe. SatCo will distribute AST SpaceMobile’s satellite services exclusively to European mobile network operators (MNOs). The initiative provides both business and consumer access, ensuring connectivity even in remote areas.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 16, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2025 – Liberty Broadband Corporation announced Monday it has completed the spin-off of GCI Liberty, Inc.,  It was acquired by Liberty Broadband in 2020. The spin-off comes as Charter Communications moves to acquire Liberty Broadband, a company that holds a 26% stake in Charter and few other assets.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 5, 2025

July 5, 2025 – Maine officials discussed their collaborative approach to rural broadband challenges during a Wednesday webcast, highlighting ongoing infrastructure investments and digital equity programs across the state's diverse geography.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 5, 2025

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland, May 5, 2025 – A state broadband official, a fiber executive, and a data center operator spoke Monday about making tough decisions behind where and how to invest in digital infrastructure. Vaughn’s team manages a $2 billion portfolio aimed at connecting roughly half a million homes.

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 20, 2025

Kelly Hancock , a Republican lawmaker with ties to broadband expansion policy, has resigned from the Legislature to lead the Comptroller’s Office – just as the state prepares to distribute billions in federal and state broadband funds. billion broadband grant window. Together, the two sources comprise a $3.8

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 18, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2025 – The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund does little to solve the $9 billion program’s long-standing structural and financial flaws, experts said in a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event after the court's June 27 ruling. 

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 29, 2025

“To the extent that structural separation between distribution and content production creates the incentives for better quality audio for consumers, we also encourage the FCC to condition any waiver of its rules” accordingly, the group said.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2025 - Experts in agriculture and telecommunications agreed Wednesday that effective precision agriculture implementation requires a comprehensive, technology-neutral approach to connectivity, rather than relying on any single broadband solution. "The Broadband Breakfast Rachelle Medalia

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

billion allocated through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program represents the largest broadband investment in American history. Both determine whether new broadband deployments can actually deliver on their promise – not just on day one, but in the years and decades ahead.    The $42.5

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RCR Wireless

MARCH 4, 2025

SatCo will exclusively distribute AST SpaceMobiles satellite services to European MNOs under a single turnkey arrangement Vodafone and satellite company AST SpaceMobile have established a joint satellite service business called SatCo, with the goal of providing 100% geographic coverage in every part of Europe to give consumers and businesses access (..)

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2025 – People’s Choice Communications, a worker-owned broadband provider established in 2020 by striking Spectrum employees, has connected thousands of low-income households across New York City to free or low-cost internet.  In the Bronx, the cooperative built extensive broadband infrastructure.

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 6, 2025

The city is appealing to lawmakers to approve legislation that would make broadband subscriptions subject to the franchise fee. Ely joins other municipalities, trade groups and the League of Minnesota Cities in supporting SF 2045, dubbed the Equal Access to Broadband Act.

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Telecom Talk

JULY 19, 2025

Airtel is offering this free subscription to everyone including its mobile and home broadband customers. Perplexity is getting great distribution, however, it is also incurring huge costs. For the unaware, the partnership will bring 360 million Airtel customers free access to Perplexity subscription for one year.

Distribution

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 17, 2025

Part 1: Explaining BEAD, Broadband Abundance? Part 2: Explaining BEAD, Trying to Bridge the Digital Divide As a brief recap, the nation has been working for decades to achieve universal access to broadband. Instead, Congress structured the BEAD program as a state and territory broadband grant program.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 1, 2025

WASHINGTON, August 1, 2025 – According to a study commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association and published Thursday, U.S. Using a Poisson random distribution analysis, the authors estimated that each new center would require 135 route miles of fiber, for a total of 77,355 new route miles of fiber across the U.S.

Construction

Telecom Talk

JULY 7, 2025

The association also highlighted that over-the-top (OTT) platforms—some of the biggest beneficiaries of broadband proliferation—are not required to contribute to the DBN, thereby placing an undue financial burden on telecom companies.

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AT&T Connects

JUNE 17, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. Last year, we teamed up with Compudopt and Junior Achievement of Greater Washington to distribute more than 100 refurbished laptops to graduating students from Frank W.

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RCR Wireless

MARCH 12, 2025

Jio also noted that it plans to distribute Starlink solutions through its retail stores and online platforms Indian operator Jio Platforms, which is part of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, has announced an agreement with SpaceX to bring Starlinks broadband internet services to its customers in India.

Internet

Blandin on Broadband

MAY 28, 2025

Highlights include: Expanding the availability of AT&T Fiber.AT&T expects to significantly grow the number of AT&T Fiber customers within the acquired fiber footprint, using its extensive distribution, the strengths of AT&T Fiber, and the value of the AT&T Guarantee.

Marketing

Fierce Telecom

JUNE 18, 2025

Today’s organizations are exploring more agile solutions like small cells, distributed radio systems, and neutral host models that support multiple carriers at once. Traditional DAS systems are no longer enough. Click here to login. Listing Image Ericsson logo listing 250x190.jpg

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 11, 2025

Both companies provide video distribution services, among other things.   SES CEO Adel Al-Saleh said earlier this year it should be possible to clear 100 megahertz of the band while preserving content distribution services.

Mobile

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 18, 2025

  EAS sends life-saving information using TV and radio outlets, and our Wireless Emergency Alerts distribute the emergency notices we receive on our mobile phones.”  Carr hopes to “begin a ground-up re-examination of the Emergency Alert Systems. 

Cable

IEEE ComSoc

APRIL 26, 2025

broadband revenue increase. Consumer fiber broadband revenue was $2.1 AT and T Internet Air net adds were 181,000 in the quarter, which is a significant improvement from a year ago, driven by broader availability across our distribution channels. At the end of the 1Q2025, AT&T said that 29.5 versus the prior year.

Network

IEEE ComSoc

APRIL 16, 2025

35%) benefitting from its national brand and advertising, digital and retail distribution, ability to take advantage of the waiting list it has for FWA [fixed wireless access] in markets where demand outstrips supply,” the Evercore analysts added. If you need help with anything, customer care is available at the tap of a button.”

Mobile

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 2, 2025

billion investment in universal broadband internet access may be on track for a major overhaul. Three years into its meticulous planning and implementation process, and with  significant progress  already made, the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program may pivot from prioritizing fiber to satellite connectivity.

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EldoTelecom

JULY 25, 2025

Fidium’s arrival has flummoxed local officials, partly because its parent company, Consolidated Communications, declined to build broadband infrastructure in Arrowsic years earlier, said Don Hudson, another commissioner. “It Machias-based internet service provider Axiom Technologies runs the town’s broadband service.

Distribution

Mark Goldberg

JULY 30, 2025

That Decision stated “Through its Broadband Fund, the Commission contributes to a broad effort by federal, provincial, and territorial governments to address the gap in connectivity in underserved rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across Canada.” Personally, I have never been crazy about the CRTC’s Broadband Fund.

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AWS Telecommunications

MAY 1, 2025

Telecom workloads consist of multiple domains such as RAN, packet core for mobile broadband Internet, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for voice communication, and Operational Support Systems/Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) for management and operations. The distributed UPFs follow standard redundancy models to handle routine failures.

Network

IEEE ComSoc

JULY 18, 2025

HughesNet and Viasat have three satellites each in their fleet delivering fixed broadband service. market with promotions and distribution of free equipment to “new customers in states where it has excess capacity,” said Marek. Viasat plans to launch its Viasat-3 F2 satellite later this year and the Viasat-3 F3 in 2026.

Internet

AT&T Connects

MAY 14, 2025

Our mission: Were investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. February 13, 2025 | AT&T Turns on New Mobile Broadband Sites Across Pennsylvania. Here are a few highlights from the last year in Pennsylvania. Learn more.

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 5, 2025

June 5, 2025 – With Alabama’s broadband expansion deadline looming, Kenneth Boswell , director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, pressed internet service providers for greater transparency regarding their progress during an Alabama Digital Expansion Authority meeting this week.

Distribution

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 31, 2025

Transparency and accountability are critical when distributing billions of USF dollars. The FCC’s National Broadband Map offers a useful starting point for determining where broadband service may be available. These gaps must be addressed.

Broadband

Gap Wireless

JUNE 23, 2025

From executive leadership changes and new distribution centers to expanded broadband solutions and public safety initiatives, this issue highlights how NWS continues to deliver measurable value through partnership, expertise, and execution.

Distribution

AT&T Connects

JUNE 27, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. “AT&T It’s this connectivity that’s powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America. Good news is always great to share.

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